RW BUSSARD'S PRESCIENT VIEWS ON OIL.

As for energy companies "stampeding" to support us -- It is clear that a view like this is ignorant of the reality of energy companies. There is only one thing the oil companies want, and that is to sell oil, and more oil. So long as the fields pump, the oil companies will squeeze. They have NO, absolutely NO interest in anything new, ins spite of all their foolish ads in magazines for wind mills and solar-PV roofs. It is all just show and tell. I know these guys, and there is no way they would support anything that might get in the way of oil. The only way to stop oil, from their view, is when it does run out. And then they''ll go for deeper drilling, new fields, Gulf geopressure gas, LNG, etc, etc, and keep raising the price, until finally foolish solar and windmills become competitive.
And we are paying the equivalent of $ 500/bbl oil costs. But Exxon and Halliburton are getting richer all the time.
Yes, we would like to build the demo plant, and yes, it will cost about 150 (DD) to 200 M (pB11), and who knows if any investor singly or a group can or will come up with the money. One of the biggest obstacle is the world-wide tokamak lobby, which perpetuates the fraud that Hirsch, Trivelpiece and I foisted on the country in the 1970's when we started the big tokamak ball rolling.
Magnetic confinement fusion is a misnomer, as magnetic fields can NOT confine a plasma, only constrain its motion towards walls. The entire history of the MagConf program has been to reduce transport to neo-classical (not turbulent or instability-driven) losses. And THEN the machines are all inherently and inevitably huge and cost too much and make too much power to ever be economically useful --- as the utilities have been telling the AEC/DoE for 30 years. No matter, the global tokamak program provides jobs for hundreds of thousands of people in many countries, and is a safe place to put political pork funding, simply because it IS NO THREAT TO OIL - it won't ever work, but it sounds good to the untutored public.

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I believe that the survival of our high-tech civilizations depends on getting off of fossile fuels ASAP, and - if we do not - we will descend into a growing series of "oil wars" and energy confrontations that can lead only to a huge cataclysim. Which CAN be circumvented if only we build the clean fuison machines in time. Our patents are in final form, and I am giving a paper in the Fall, and trying to get a large technical description together for a major paper by summer. We shall see.
One final word: Actually our device is really not a variant of Farnwworth/Hirsch, but of Elmore/Tuck/Watson who propeosed the inversion of Farnsworth/Hirsch long ago (ca. 1967). Their problem was the interception of circulating electrons by grids - we removed the grids and replaced them by B field insulated coils - thus our "grids" are the coils themselves.. And we do know how these work, at last.

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AN ECONOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS

The so called liberals in this country need to get behind President Roosevelt's proposal for an economic bill of rights. The problem is that the Democratic Party in America stands for nothing. The need to show the world that they actually stand for something and will expand upon what has traditionally made them "liberal" namely the New Deal and Great Society programs of the 20th Century.

AUTHORITARIANISM AND PROFESSIONALISM

One sign that you are living in a totalitarian / authoritarian society is the existence of professionals. The profession that most associated with totalitarianism is that of lawyer. In the ancient democratic state of Athens there were no lawyers. Every citizen had the responsibility of knowing the law. In totalitarian states the laws are purposefully Byzantine in order to repress the people. The lay citizen is ignorant of the majority of the laws, yet is expected to adhere to the law. The United States was founded on the constitution of Rome. There were some tweaks but this is more or less the truth. The Roman Constitution was instituted in order to protect the institution of slavery. It is a constitutional oligarchic system. It is the antithesis of freedom. More to come....